OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Sedimentation and reworking of volcanic detritus in Frasnian and lower Famennian carbonate rocks of the Velbert Anticline (Rhenish Massif, Germany)	16
Two new fossil Tetrigidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Grube Messel (Germany)	15
Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia)	14
The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America	13
Exoedaenodus schaubi Hürzeler, 1944 (Dimylidae, Mammalia) from the late Oligocene of Enspel/Germany	11
Rugose corals across the Early-Middle Devonian boundary in southern Belgium	10
Depositional history of Devonian and Mississippian rocks from southern Mongolia: Stratigraphic and sedimentologic framework of a volcanic arc system	10
Amphilagus plicadentis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	10
Pre-Quaternary maar lakes/volcanogenic lakes as Konservat Lagerstätten—Messel and beyond	9
A dance fly (Empididae: Hilarempis Bezzi) from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte (Early Miocene, New Zealand)	9
Global palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns of the Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods (Family: Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840)	8
Organic carbon isotope stratigraphy of Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in the Rhenish Mountains	8
The Permian–Triassic boundary section at Baghuk Mountain, Central Iran: carbonate microfacies and depositional environment	8
A new discosorid and some other nautiloids from the Givetian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany	8
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coal bearing unit: the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Tabas Block, East-Central Iran	8
Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)	7
Late early to early middle Eocene climate and vegetation change at Tastakh Lake (northern Yakutia, eastern Siberia)	7
Fieldwork with Peter Königshof	7
Late Early to late Middle Pleistocene medium-sized deer from the Italian Peninsula: implications for taxonomy and biochronology	7
Palaeoecology and affinities of Nummipera eocenica burrows from the middle Eocene (late Lutetian) of Jiroft area, Central Iran	7
Fossil samaras of Acer L. (Sapindaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of western Yunnan, southwestern China	7
The Rhenish Massif: More than 150 years of research in a Variscan mountain chain	7
Early Cretaceous Equisetites from Slovakia	6
A small assemblage of early Oligocene rodents and insectivores from the Sivas basin, Turkey	6
Palaeozoic (Silurian–Devonian) cherts from the Balkan Terrane, western Bulgaria: geochemistry, biostratigraphy and depositional settings	6

Cricetodontinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	6
New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar	6
Middle Miocene trace fossils from the Tenes area (NW Algeria) and their palaeoenvironmental implications	5
The non-apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze	5
35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests	5
Revisiting the Silurian–Lower Devonian spiriferide and spiriferinide brachiopods from the Condroz Inlier and Ardenne Allochthon (Belgium): current data and perspectives	5
New report of Late Cretaceous struthiosaurids from the Haţeg Basin, with an overview of the Transylvanian ankylosaur fossil record	5
Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report	5
Correction to: Devonian to Mississippian strata of the Shine Jinst region revisited: Facies development and stratigraphy in southern Mongolia (Gobi Altai Terrane)	4
Lower and middle Famennian (Upper Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy from Compte section (Central Pyrenees, Spain)	4
Vertebrate microremains from the Late Devonian (Famennian) of western Mongolia	4
The Miocene Tagay locality of Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia) – a multidisciplinary approach	4
Microscale analysis of the fish Knightia eocaena taphonomy: Implication of a preserved microbial community	4
Eocene sediments and a fresh to brackish water biota from the early rifting stage of the Upper Rhine Graben (west of oil field Landau, southwest Germany): implications for biostratigraphy, palaeoecolo	4
Plant fossils from the middle Siwalik of eastern Nepal and their climatic and phytogeographic significance	4
A new fossil fern of the Dryopteridaceae (Polypodiales) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	4
Environmental, vegetational and climatic investigations during the Plio-Pleistocene in SW-Anatolia: A case study from the fluvio-lacustrine deposits in Uşak-Karahallı area	4
The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit	4
Facies, magnetic susceptibility and timing of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval (Xom Nha Formation, Central Vietnam)	4
The Pliocene Ophisaurus (Anguidae) from Eastern Europe: new records and additions to the history of the genus and its palaeoenvironment	4
First record of Pliocene (Zanclean to mid Piacenzian) marine deposits on Rhodes (Greece): implications for eastern Mediterranean palaeo(bio)geography	4
The tubarium construction in Holoretiolites, Neogothograptus and related taxa (Graptolithina, Retiolitinae): clues to their astogeny and species identification	3
An intriguing find of an early Middle Pleistocene European snow leopard, Panthera uncia pyrenaica ssp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae), from the Arago cave (Tautavel, Pyrénées-Orientales, France)	3
First reelaborated Cretaceous batoid of the Early Miocene from Spain	3
Foraminiferal palaeoecology of the Aptian/Albian deposits of the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin) in northeastern of Brazil	3
A tribute and memorial for Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig (March 8th, 1955 – August 1st, 2023)	3
Rainiest Spain: amphibians and reptiles from the late Early Pleistocene-age site of El Chaparral (Cádiz)	3
A stratigraphically significant new zosterophyllopsid from the Rhenish Lower Devonian (W Germany)	3
Late Quaternary shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Priamurye (Russian Far East) according to data from Koridornaya Cave: species diversity and stratigraphical aspects	3
The possible region of the Late Miocene split of the sandfly subgenus Transphlebotomus Artemiev and the early late Neogene to late Quaternary dispersal of the ancestor of Phlebotomus mascittii Grassi	3
The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)	3
Correction to: Facies, magnetic susceptibility and timing of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval (Xom Nha Formation, Central Vietnam)	3
The identity of the Silurian retiolitine genera Paraplectograptus and Sagenograptoides (Graptoloidea, Retiolitinae)	3
Deep-time maar lakes and other volcanogenic lakes as Fossil-Lagerstätten – An overview	3
Earliest fossil record of Cryptocarya R. Br. (Lauraceae) from Asia and its biogeographic and palaeoenvironmental implications	3
A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	3
Gliridae and Eomyidae (Rodentia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	2
Changes in macrofaunal groups before, during and after the Cenomanian–Turonian biotic crisis in north Eastern Desert, Egypt	2
Quantitative morphological comparison of rake-legged mites over the last 100 million years and the first fossil larva of Caeculidae	2
New late Oligocene rodent faunas from the Pannonian basin	2
A middle Eocene treefall pit and its filling: a microenvironmental study from the onset of a forest mire in the Geiseltal (Germany)	2
Iridescent harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae) from the Eocene of Messel, Germany	2
New ammonoid records and the definition of the base of the German Hemberg-Stufe (Famennian III, Upper Devonian)	2
Pollen-feeding in a giant pelobatid tadpole from the late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany	2
Fenestrate bryozoan fauna from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany)	2
An updated look at the taxonomy, stratigraphy, and palaeoecology of the Devonian bivalve genus Ontaria Clarke, 1904 (Cardiolidae, Bivalvia)	2
Devonian palaeoenvironmental dynamics in Colombia: An integrated sedimentological and geochemical exploration	2
The porcupine Hystrix parvae (Kretzoi, 1951) from the Late Miocene (Turolian, MN11) of Kohfidisch in Austria	2
Evidence of biotic recovery through the Cretaceous/Palaeogene transition from the Mahadeo-Cherrapunji succession in the Meghalaya shelf, India	2
Benthic graptolites (Graptolithina, Pterobranchia) in the Miaolingian (Cambrian Series 3)	2

The earliest large carpenter bee (Xylocopa) and its adhering pollen (Araliaceae, Theaceae)	2
Convergent evolution of defensive appendages – a lithobiomorph-like centipede with a scolopendromorph-type ultimate leg from about 100 million-year-old amber	2
The revision of fossil big-eyed bugs suggests a peculiar evolutionary history of a peculiar true bug family (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae)	2
Plant-insect interaction from the Middle Jurassic Haifanggou Formaton in Huludao, western Liaoning and its geological implications	2
Marsupials (Herpetotheriids) from the late Palaeogene of south-east Serbia	2
Parautochthonous nappes in the south-eastern Lahn-Dill area, induced by alpine-type nappe thrusting in the Rhenish Massif (Germany)	2
Late Devonian (Famennian) phacopid trilobites from western Xinjiang, Northwest China	2
Upper Devonian to Mississippian global environmental change and impact on conodonts	2
A small vertebrate (Urodela, Anura, Squamata, Rodentia) assemblage from Fada Nana Cave (Quaternary, northern Italy)	2
Introduction to the special issue “Festschrift for Márton Venczel”	2
The Devonian-Carboniferous transition at Borkewehr near Wocklum (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany) – a potential GSSP section	2
Early Paleogene precipitation patterns over East Asia: Was there a monsoon after all?	2
Euboeus mimonti Boieldieu, 1865, the oldest record of an extant species of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) and notes on other species identified as darkling beetles from the Late Pliocene of Willershausen	2
Investigation of the possible role of the Central Paratethys as a migration route and speciation area of the ancestors of Mediterranean Larroussius, Paraphlebotomus and Phlebotomus species	2